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ORIGINAL: Laymedown60 Will according to the CDC in the year 2000 only 409 kids between 1 and 14 were killed by accidental discharge of firearms heh what’s a little number like 409, just a drop in the bucket, excess population anyway, I mean are there no County Hospitals, are there no wooden coffins in the morgue? I mean we do pay taxes for such things. Laymendown Why did you go with the year 2000? Seems like one would want a more up to date figure, has this figure been higher or lower since 2000? What is it for this year? Just to put things in perspective 415 were struck by lightning in 2000. Just to put things in perspective, lightning strikes are not preventable unless you never allow your children outside when there is a cloud in the sky. Children getting killed by careless gun ownership is completely preventable. So is children getting killed in car accidents, children drowning in the bathtub and children ingesting poisons, all of which happen more often. I get uncomfortable with the "children are dying" or "one child is too many" arguments because that doesn't really seem to be the case. Children die in car accidents, so we mandate child safety seats, have classes on how to use them properly, and you can go down to your local fire station or police station to have them checked. Children drown in tubs, so we inform parents on how quickly it can happen and teach them to never leave your child alone even for a second, even in just one inch of water. Children die from poisons, so we make special locks for cabinets, make manufacturers label medical instructions on their products and have poison control on the little sticker on the phone. No one is arguing that cars are bad and no one should have them, or that bathing your children is endangering their very lives, or that cleaning products are immoral and should be banned or heavily restricted. If the real goal is to save children's lives, wouldn't there be campaigns against the top 10 child killers, or even just the top 3?
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